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The Five The Five just made cable news history.
Fox News' highest-rated show is now the first non-prime time program to win three consecutive quarters as the number one show on cable.
The 5 p.m. panel program edged out Tucker Carlson Tonight for the top spot in terms of overall viewers, despite Tucker Carlson topping The Five in the demo.
Largely thanks to The Five's monumental ratings, Fox News ended the quarter as the most-watched network on cable and extended its winning streak over its cable news competition to a whopping 82 consecutive quarters.
According to data from Neilsen MRI, The Five averaged 3.3 million viewers and 461,000 in the key 25-54 age demographic during the second quarter.
On top of dominating cable, The Five managed to beat several non-cable news programming, including the NBA playoffs on TNT, The Today Show, and Good Morning America.
Even Democrats can't turn off the largely right-wing opinion show.
The Five not only topped the charts with Independents but also pulled in the largest audience of Democrats on all of cable news.
According to Neilsen, an average of 801,000 Democrats watched The Five in April, just edging out The Rachel Maddow Show, which brought in 788,000 viewers who identify as Democrats.
The day after Neilsen released the quarter's ratings, The Five's Jesse Watters decided to mock women's contributions to the workforce -- making it hard for this newsletter writer to declare his show winner.
Watters may not value women in the workforce, and judging by the ratings, the audience certainly agrees with him. But there are at least three women on The Five whose contributions are really appreciated.
Plus, regardless of the content, millions of people watched -- and that's a cable triumph nonetheless. |
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| | MEDIA LOSER:
Rob Finnerty Newsmax's Rob Finnerty took time out of his interview with Donald Trump to assure the former president that his election lies would make it on air.
The interview aired Thursday morning but was conducted on Wednesday -- a day after Cassidy Hutchinson delivered bombshell after bombshell at Tuesday’s surprise Jan. 6 committee hearing.
Trump spent much of the interview attempting to discredit the committee and Hutchinson, whom he declared a “whack job."
“The people were there because the election was rigged and stolen,” Trump said of the Jan. 6 Capitol attack.
“They don’t want to do that. In fact, they don’t even want to hear that. And Fox doesn’t put it on and, by the way, you people don’t put it on either. You’re afraid of being sued or something.”
Trump went on to predict that Newsmax would censor him when airing the interview -- prompting a rather sycophantic response from Finnerty.
“They’ll probably cut what I’m saying out,” Trump said, later demanding, “Don’t let it happen.”
"No, no. Of course not. This will be on Wake Up America tomorrow morning," Finnerty assured Trump.
Trump then told Finnerty to get the segment done "fast" before Newsmax CEO Chris Ruddy could see it.
"But, they might cut it out. Let’s just see. I hope they put it on," he added. "But this was about a rigged and stolen election that millions and millions of people felt is true.”
Finnerty offered no pushback.
The interview continued with Trump reiterating his election fraud claims while touting Dinesh D’Souza’s widely–mocked documentary 2000 Mules.
Newsmax is currently facing a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit from Dominion Voting Systems for tying the organization to false and conspiratorial claims about the 2020 election. |
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| 'Extremist MAGA judges'
On Thursday, the Supreme Court limited the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) power to restrict carbon emissions from power plants.
The decision was established in a 6-3 vote, with the court’s three liberal justices lamenting that they had just stripped the EPA of “the power to respond to the most pressing environmental challenge of our time.”
The ruling is a major blow to the Biden administration’s plans for combating climate change.
Democrats went off on the Supreme Court on Twitter, blasting it as a radical, extremist, illegitimate right-wing threat to the future of humanity.
The White House called the ruling "another devastating decision from the Court that aims to take our country backwards," while Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) took an even harsher tone.
"First on gun safety, then on abortion, and now on the environment – this MAGA, repressive, extremist Supreme Court is intent on setting America back decades, if not centuries,” he said in a statement.
Former President Barack Obama weighed in with a measured reaction calling the decision a “step backward.”
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) called the decision “catastrophic,” adding, “We need to reform or do away with the whole thing, for the sake of the planet.”
"This radical Supreme Court is increasingly facing a legitimacy crisis, and we can't let them have the last word," tweeted Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA).
Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) claimed, “SCOTUS is killing America,” while Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) argued that it’s “Time to put everything on the table” to stop the conservatives on the court.
While the Democrats are losing it over the decision, it marks a victory for several Republican-led states and coal companies, which, for years, have been bidding to curb the EPA's power to regulate carbon emissions. FOR LATEST JAN. 6 COMMITTEE HEARING COVERAGE CLICK HERE In Other News...
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| Chock full of nuttery
Four Arizona GOP gubernatorial hopefuls squared off in a televised debate Wednesday night, and it was just as nutty as you'd expect.
Moderator Ted Simons set off a round of crazy when he asked Kari Lake — the Donald Trump-backed candidate who is currently the frontrunner in the race — about the 2020 election.
“You’ve called Joe Biden an illegitimate president,” Simons said. “What does that mean?
“He lost the election and he shouldn’t be in the White House,” Lake said. “We had a corrupt election.”
The frontrunner then egged on her opponents to join her in crazytown. |
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